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turm|tɜːm|
[a. OF. turme, torme (15th c. in Godef.), ad. L. turma a troop, squadron.]
A body or band of people, esp. a troop of horsemen; spec. a troop of thirty or thirty-two horsemen (= L. turma).
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 47 b/1 Iacob was sore aferde thenne and devyded his companye in to tweyne turmes. c1520Barclay Jugurth (1557) 41 One bande or cohorte of Lumbardes and twoo turmes, that is to saye three score Thraciens. 1533Bellenden Livy ii. xx (S.T.S.) I. 210 But dout þai had gevin bakkis, war nocht marcus fabius..come on ane spedy horss, with ane certane turmys of horsmen. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 66 Legions and Cohorts, turmes of horse and wings. 1800–24Campbell Dead Eagle 18 Rome array'd her turms And cohorts for the conquest of the world. |